HI registered agent
Hawaii registered agent, $3.50 a year, about a penny a day
Hawaii wants a registered agent at a real address for every company it registers. The statute is below. So is what the state charges when the agent is us.
The Hawaii rule
Rule
From the Hawaii code:
... this State a registered agent, who shall have a business address in this State and may be: (1) An individual who resides in this State; (2) A domestic entity authorized ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-61; sec. 428-107; sec. 425R-3
What it costs when the agent does not answer
Penalties, dissolution, the works. Quoted from the code, priced by the state, not by us.
Dissolved by the state
... section 414-402 to administratively dissolve a corporation if the corporation fails to: (1) Pay any fees prescribed by law; (2) File its annual report ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-401(3)-(4); sec. 428-809(3)-(4)
Revoked (from out of state)
... the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-461(1)(C); sec. 428-1006(a)(1)(C)
Also
... administratively terminated continues its existence temporarily but may carry on only business necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 428-810(c)-(d); sec. 414-402(c)-(d)
No suing anyone
... foreign corporation transacting business in this State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this State until it obtains a certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-432(a), (d); sec. 428-1008(a), (e)
The reinstatement bill
Reinstatement, priced
... department director for reinstatement within two years after the effective date of dissolution. The application shall: (1) Recite the name of the corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-403(a); sec. 428-811(a); sec. 428-1301(a)(7)
Our compliance
Split the difference: none.
Lawsuits, delivered elsewhere
Service
... property, business, or office of the corporation can be found within the State, and the corporation has not filed with the department director, pursuant to this chapter, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-64(a)-(c); sec. 428-110(a)-(c); sec. 414-440(b) (foreign corporations)
The annual report, also optional
incFACTS has no verified Hawaii annual report fee. We put it down as about tree fiddy.
Code text captured by incFACTS 2026-08-01, verified against the state 2026-08-10. The law moves; the page does not.